Szefner Boruch received transit visa no. 1947 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 47.
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Boruch Szefner, president of the Yiddish Writers' Union in Warsaw and correspondent for the Bund daily Volkszeitung, was evacuated to Vilna and after the Soviet takeover of Lithuania hid under the assumed name Izak Braude. He received two Sugihara visas (#1947 and #1814) under both his real and assumed names, plus an American visa arranged by the Jewish Labor Committee. He left Lithuania for Japan in February 1941 and sailed to the United States on the Kamakura Maru in late April 1941, where he became a staff writer for the Jewish Daily Forward.
One of two Sugihara visas issued to Boruch Szefner, this one under his assumed name Izak Braude, which he used to hide from Soviet authorities after the takeover of Lithuania.
Boruch Szefner, president of the Yiddish Writers' Union in Warsaw and parliamentary correspondent for the Bund daily Volkszeitung, was evacuated to Vilna at the war's outbreak. As an outspoken critic of Communism he hid under the assumed name Izak Braude after the Soviet takeover. He received two Sugihara visas (#1947 and #1814) under both his real and assumed names, and left Lithuania for Japan in February 1941, later sailing to the U.S. where he wrote for the Jewish Daily Forward.